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Alejandro Mayorkas, nominated as deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, touted his reforms to the EB-5 visa program as CIS director that included centralizing its administration at headquarters, instituting anti-fraud measures and hiring as many as 100 economic and business analysts. (Associated Press photographs)
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TV viewers watch as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's uncle Jang Song-thaek is escorted by military officers during a trial in Pyongyang. North Korea said Friday that it had executed Jang as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader's former mentor, long considered the country's No. 2 official. (Associated Press)
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Yanukovych's visit is aimed at gaining Chinese support for Ukraine's battered economy. The country's economic malaise has helped fuel ongoing protests in Kiev. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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State Rep. Amanda Price, Republican, defended the measure requiring women to purchase an insurance rider that covers abortions saying that "abortion is an individual choice." (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)
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State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, Democrat, revealed that she was a victim of rape two decade ago and that if she had gotten pregnant she would not have health coverage for an abortion under the new law.
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In this Dec. 12, 2013, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio rebukes conservative groups who oppose the pending bipartisan budget compromise struck by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican establishment’s much-anticipated pushback against the tea party wing is underway. Boehner made that clear, when he renewed his earlier denunciation of groups that try to defeat GOP incumbents they consider too willing to compromise with Democrats. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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A memorial for Loretta Fuddy, the director of the state Department of Health, is displayed outside the department in Honolulu on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. Fuddy died in a plane crash off Molokai on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
